Defeat against a third division club: Joshua Kimmich and FC Bayern lose in Saarbrücken. Image: dpa
If FC Bayern loses against a third division club, something can be wrong. There are detailed explanations for every defeat. But the recent bankruptcy in Munich speaks of fundamental instability.
When he was no longer sure that it would go well, Thomas Tuchel sent the player he didn’t want to send to warm up that evening. The television cameras filmed Harry Kane, the new center forward of FC Bayern Munich, who is supposed to decide the games in the big stadiums in Madrid, Milan and Manchester this season, now skipping through the small stadium in Saarbrücken wearing an orange jersey.
There, when Kane looked out on the field, he could see faces he’d probably never seen up close before and probably never will see up close again. They were the faces of the players from 1. FC Saarbrücken, whose team is currently in fifteenth place in the third German football league. And it was also the faces of the players that evening that would inflict one of the biggest defeats of this decade on FC Bayern Munich.
